Entries by AlanPaul

Last week’s column

Soccer Season Turns Into‘Bad News Bears’ in Beijing Soccer has been a big part of our social life in Beijing. Within a few weeks of arriving here, we had signed our boys up for Saturday soccer with Sports Beijing, an organization that runs a host of youth sports. Close to 600 kids from countless countries […]

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Zip, zip, zip

Wow. Things are moving fast. It’s been a very hectic time here, and the days are flying by. W are leaving December 15 to go back for two weeks, a whirlwind trip that I sort of opposed though I am sure I will love. It will also mark the halfway point of our stay here, […]

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From the Archives: Spencer Haywood

This ran in Slam about seven or eight years ago.. one of my favorite Slam interviews I’ve done. Spencer is a trip. He called me endlessly as we were doing this story, to clairfy or expand up on various things. Spencer Haywood’s life reads like an epic blues song. As with all real blues, it […]

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More from home — baby naming

Man, you move to China and everyone forgets to invite you to big events. Apparently, cousin Danny and Alisa had a baby naming last weekend for their daughter, Julia Natalie Cohen… She looks to have the Danny/Uncle Ben love of a good snooze. That’s Rachel hanging upside down.

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Delaware Thanksgiving

These photos come to me courtesy of brother in law Jon “Wall Street” Kessler. He is very proud of his turkey fryer and I must say the bird I had out of this thing a couple of years back was delicious –surpassed only by my cayenne pepper concotion this year. Jon’s getup also deserves high […]

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Jacob Paul, MVP

Jacob was named MVP of his Dulwich College Football Club team last week. He was really, understandably proud. He now leads his old man in MVP Awards 1-0 and has many years left to accumulate them. I was the King of Fat Lenny’s Hustle Awards. They split the team into three and he was placed […]

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Happy Thanksgiving

Anna and ladies’ man mathius.Charles M. and Samara, Kenyan natives.B. with Ellen and GeorgieTony and ArabellaMarcus B.Theo and Eddie YardleyKristi and AngelaMaya A. and Nathan B.Kids’ table is alive and well in Beijing.Maya Alexandri delivers turkey two from next door…we needed an extra oven.Wyatt and Jacqui Cameron came by for a drink on their way […]

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American Embassy visit

Note: these photos are not of the US Embassy but of others nearby, in the Embassy District. It gives you an idea what it looks like. These green-coated paramilitary police are all over the place. I went to the American Embassy for the first time last week to renew my passport. They are building a […]

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Anna soccer

Dulwich started a toddler branch of the DCFC (Dulwich college Football Club) this year and Anna was the only female participant. She is a Natural Born Killa out there. Can’t wait to coach her.

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